Namibia: Genocide Verdict a Serious Learning Curve and Reawakening

15 March 2019
analysis

After more than two years of waiting in exasperation, excitement, hope, expectations and uncertainty, the judge in the class action brought by the Ovaherero, Ovambanderu and Nama against the government of the Federal Republic of Germany has delivered her verdict.

Judge Laura Taylor Swain last Wednesday granted the German government its wish as per its countermotion against the application of the Namibian communities affected by Imperial Germany's genocide against them.

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